NASA’s Perseverance spacecraft captured a solar eclipse when Mars’ moon, Phobos, intersected with the sun, obscuring part of the solar disk.
Planetary scientist Paul Byrne published the scene on his Twitter account, commenting: “This is a partial eclipse of the sun seen from the surface of Mars last Friday.”
Image processor Kevin Gill put the footage together into a short video clip that shows Phobos moving in front of the sun, giving humans on Earth a good view of what the eclipse will look like from the surface of Mars.
The spacecraft “Perseverance” captured the scene of the eclipse, while it was roaming through the Jezero crater, an area with a watery history on the Red Planet.
The rover is collecting rock samples from the area, searching for evidence of ancient microbial life and studying the landscape.